Meteor over Austin, now one over Clear Lake?
Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2018 9:11 pm
As I was driving home just after sunset tonight (Nov 16 at 6:02pm) and I had just turned off of I-45 onto southwest bound FM2351 when I saw a bright fireball almost due south of me burning across the sky just below the crescent moon towards the southwest horizon. Given the normal ambient light in the Houston night sky the fact that I saw this at all indicates that it must have been quite bright. And given that there was one over Austin last night, I have to wonder if there's some sort of Leonid fireball shower going of? I mean, I watch the sky a lot, and I'd never seen a fireball like this! The Leonid radiant hasn't even risen yet.